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Proxy with Yowei Shaw

Yowei Shaw

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 589 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

It’s the knot you can’t untangle — a problem so specific, it makes you feel alone. But what if you could talk to someone who gets it?

On Proxy, we find someone with the closest possible experience to your problem — and follow the conversation that unfolds. It’s not therapy. It’s emotional investigative journalism.

Hosted by Yowei Shaw, former co-host of Invisibilia.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Ever wondered why some trends are just suddenly everywhere?
0:05.1	Newsflash, nothing gets popular by accident.
0:09.0	I'm Brittany Luce, and on the It's Been a Minute podcast, I take the things you and I are both obsessing over
0:14.3	and show you the invisible forces behind the scenes that make us love it or hate it.
0:19.8	Be smarter about what you're consuming. Listen to the
0:22.8	It's Been a Minute podcast today. Hey, I'm Yo-A-Shah. I used to host the NPR podcast Invisibilia.
0:32.5	And now, I have a new show called Proxy. On Proxy, listeners knock on my door with their emotional conundrums.
0:40.4	Cases they haven't been able to close, because no one in their life can relate, or maybe
0:45.6	because the one person they wish they could talk to won't or can't.
0:51.5	Cases like the guy who can't stop fact-checking his mother-in-law who has Alzheimer's,
0:56.1	even though he knows better. Or the band that hasn't been able to finish their record for years,
1:02.1	and can't figure out why. Or the introvert who loves her ex-roverted friends, but struggles to
1:09.1	hang out with them.
1:17.3	On proxy, I put on my trench coat, no fedora, of course, and scour the world for the perfect stranger who gets it, someone who's been in the same situation, or has relevant experience,
1:23.5	and can hopefully crack the case through conversation.
1:27.5	It's emotional investigative journalism at your service.
1:32.5	Proxy.
1:33.5	New episodes every other Tuesday.
1:35.9	Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
1:41.4	Radiotopia.
1:44.0	From PRX

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